Do you have any weird phobias?

[Lorddenning1]

I'm a fully grown adult and I can't stomach egg Yolks, I can only eat the white part, I'm not scared of them and can be around them but he thought of eating one makes me feel sick.
Sat eating my dinner (ready meal because I'm having a lazy day) got half way through it and started to gag and then I threw up a little bit, I was sweating and breathing harder!
Just looked at what's in it and it's spaghetti Carbonara , made with egg yolks!
It can't be mind over matter as I didn't know eggs were in it
I also I can cook eggs for people, I just can't eat them.
Anyone else have weird phobia type things or is it just me!

Holes (Trypophobia) - absolutely awful and makes me terrified and physically unwell at the same time.

Trousers, or anything covering my legs. I had to explain to work that I needed to wear shorts as my legs get claustrophobic. Wore shorts to go to the supermarket today.

Metal objects in water such as oil riggs or submarines - just makes me shudder - ewww horrible

Frogs. And gloves!

Mine is injections. Proper phobia as in if I force myself to have one my body takes over and I pass out.
It's like being tied to a train track and the train is coming for me.

My weird phobia is having my eyebrows brushed the wrong way. There used to be a Calvin Klein advert where a woman ran her fingers over a man eyebrows the wrong way. Nope. Just hope. Makes me feel sick. Physically I can't do it to myself.

No but I just found out today that the phobia of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Seriously!

Quarries and the idea that they have large machinery in, there is a Pete moss near where I stay with a full train submerged in it somewhere, it came off the tracks during the war and couldn’t be salvaged 🤢. I just really don’t like big expanses of water like lakes etc. Weirdly the sea doesn’t bother me

Ditto underground mining places with machinery left there as well

Another one here for empty swimming pools, they freak me out so much that if I ever come across one I hyperventilate, it's when the pool slopes off from the shallow end into the deep end that really gets me..

Stickers, especially on clothing and then they have fibres on the back when they get pulled off. I used to hate being given a sticker at the dentist as a child. My daughter came home with one on her jumper the other day and I felt sick.

Also images of silent movie stars, they are so creepy and sinister to me, I find them terrifying.

I’m really fascinated by some of these.

Lots of people mentioning shipwrecks and things in water

Anything with wings. Birds, butterflies, bats etc, aeroplanes.

Dogs. It’s possibly slightly less extreme than it used to be, but a dog coming near me is the most terrifying thing on earth. It’s not a fear of them biting me, it’s just their presence. I do absolutely anything I can to avoid them.

Balloons (fine if hung up out of reach, but if anyone is touching/holding them then I have to leave the room and preferably the building), slugs and snails, thunder and lightning, fireworks.

And vomit! Can’t believe I forgot that one.

Masks - especially clown ones.

For years as a child, I used to have nightmares about calm water and then something creating a ripple on the surface.

@JiltedJohnsJulie

Stairs that don't have backs but then I did fall through sone stairs when I was 3 and I can remember snacking my face up.

I don't think that's weird, they're an absolute trip hazard imo. My late DM's house had them, and I couldn't tell you how many times I fell up them, but

Both the dogs I used to have hated them too. I think it was because they were small dogs, so could see through the gap as they went upstairs, and felt like they were stepping into a void. The more determined dog overcame it, but was still uneasy, the other one never walked up those stairs in all his 14 years.

Trypophobia 🤮 especially barnacles, I'm retching just writing it!

My Dad had the cotton wool phobia, I always remember really gashing my knee when i fell off my bike and dad cleaning up the wound, he had to get me to pull off wodges of cotton wool and throw them into water. Weirdly DS1 also has this and will not touch cotton wool as he "feels" it screaming.
Mum couldn't touch chalk, DD hates velvet. My touch thing is the dishwasher tablets, they seem to leave a feeling on my fingers, so I unwrap them without touching them and if they fall oddly into the dispenser thing so the lid won't close I have to poke them in with a bit of cutlery

My two main things are butterflies...I don't like them but it wasn't until I had to be escorted, weeping and blue with holding my breath, out of the Amsterdam Zoo Butterfly House that I realised how much I did not like them.
And the other thing is getting stuff caught in my hair...tongs/straighteners/brushes/bobbles ...I still use all those things but the slightest hint of any tangling and I have a big moment! I keep a secret pair of scissors in my drawer in case I have to snip anything out in case I was alone in the house and anything happened

I used to have recurring dreams about stairs with holes in, the ones where there is just the flat step and then a gap rather than having a vertical bit closing it off. Even thinking about them makes me feel clammy.

@Cocolapew that sounds more like trypophobia

Lifts! I know lots of people don't like them and there's a logical (if not rational!) fear of getting stuck or the cable breaking but for me it is everything about them. The sensation of being moved up and down and the powerlessness maybe?

The WORST is the horrible floaty sensation in the last couple of seconds before they stop, when they are slowing right down. Ugh. Bonus points if they are glass so you can see the ground dropping away and get added vertigo.

Oddly enough, I can use them if I need to and can keep it together, it's just extremely unpleasant for me. But the obsession is so strong that I dream about them literally every night. No matter what the context of the dream I will find myself having to get into one at some point.

I'd love to try and figure out exactly what my problem is with them!

Foxes in books/films dressed and acting like humans. Lots of painting of foxes dressed as lord of the manor weirdly often in hunting outfit. I find them frightening

Couldn’t watch Fantastic Mr Fox I find it unnerving and upsetting

I am not scared of foxes when they are not dressed up

I’m now utterly fascinated by the “large metal objects submerged in water” phobia. Can those with it explain a bit more? Like what you imagine or what will happen etc. That’s really interested me as it’s one of the few ones that I can’t think of a direct evolutionary human link to danger exactly. Or maybe I’m wrong!

Mash potato. If that ever goes in my mouth I think I’d pass out

I was really pleased when I found out, some years ago, that a) trypophobhia is a thing and b) it's quite common.

For as long as I can remember, clusters/holes have triggered this ridiculous overreaction on my part - an overwhelming urge to firstly destroy the thing, then run away, so both fight and flight, I guess.

The first 'trigger' I can remember is from when I was around six or seven, and attending a friend's birthday party. Another wee guest there had quite a large strawberry birthmark on the lower part of their face, which just so happened to form a very distinctive 'polka dot' pattern.

I couldn't even bear to look at the poor girl and my very embarrassed mother took me home (obviously I feel dreadful about it now, 30-odd years later).

It is such an odd, visceral reaction that seems to come from the very depths of the amygdala...